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April 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda THE RSL has slammed a Hobart bar for encouraging partygoers to hit the booze all night then go to the Dawn Service.
It describes the social media advertisement as “appalling”.
The Observatory Bar’s Facebook page yesterday advertised “We’re open tonight!!!
“Get on the shots then get on the FLOOR!!!
“Stay up all night and make the Dawn Service!!!”
RSL state president Bill Kaine slammed the suggestion, saying: “If you’ve been up drinking all night, we don’t want you there”.
“The Dawn Service and Anzac day are about commemoration and respect and it is disgusting to think these special events are being used for cheap commercial gain.”
Observatory venue manager Thom Gunter wrote the Facebook posts and said he was referring to the fact he and some of his colleagues planned to attend a dawn service after the bar closed at 4am. They would be sober, he said.
“I have family who fought in the first World War and I’ve been to the Anzac Day service before, it’s something that means something to me,” Mr Gunter said.
He said he removed the posts because he realised they appeared to be inappropriate and he also apologised to a woman from the RSL who went to the bar yesterday to complain.
Mr Gunter said the bar always opened the night before a public holiday and he knew visiting naval officers were keen to have a few drinks there last night.
The RSL made a complaint to the state’s Liquor and Gaming Branch and Premier Lara Giddings said she shared the RSL’s concerns.
“It is distasteful and not at all in keeping with the Anzac Day spirit,” she said last night.
While the Observatory Bar’s advertising was the most blatant example brought to the Mercury’s attention yesterday, venues across the state were also preparing for a Tuesday night cash bonanza.
Hobart’s Telegraph Hotel was advertising “massive Anzac Day eve specials”.
Many venues that were usually not even open on a Tuesday had booked bands, DJs and other such enticements to encourage patrons, free from work or school responsibilities, to hit the town last night.
Other states, including Victoria and Queensland, introduced legislation to restrict club and pub opening hours on Anzac Day eve after a series of distasteful scenes at dawn services, with attendees drunk, high, and dancing around Cenotaphs.
No such legislation is in place in Tasmania but the Premier said harsh penalties applied for liquor licence breaches.
“Venues are required by law to adhere to responsible service of alcohol laws, which include not serving alcohol to patrons who are intoxicated,” she said. “Any breaches of the licensing laws are taken extremely seriously.”
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